Donald Trump is the best thing to happen to the Democrats in 2016. Now, Breitbart News reports he is hammering Marco Rubio on immigration.
It is clear where Breitbart's sympathies lie:
Rubio joins people like Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign co-chair and liberal actress Eva Longoria—who compared Trump to Adolf Hitler—and Univision programming president Alberto Ciurana–who compared Trump to Charleston, South Carolina, mass murderer Dylann Storm Roof. There are plenty of others throughout the mainstream media and institutional left who have slammed Trump as well, and some Republicans like former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former New York Gov. George Pataki.
Trump went on a Twitter rampage leading up to the interview:
“Our Southern border is unsecure. I am the only one that can fix it, nobody else has the guts to even talk about it.”
“Our Southern border is totally out of control. This is an absolutely disgraceful. situation,” Trump added. “We need border security!”
“Where are the other candidates now that this tragic murder has taken place b/c of our unsafe border,” he added in another tweet. “We need a wall!”
In a fourth tweet, Trump sent a message directly to Rubio: “.@marcorubio what do you say to the family of Kathryn Steinle in CA who was viciously killed b/c we can’t secure our border? Stand up for US.”
The attack is complete with whisper campaigns by an Unnamed Adviser alleging lies to sell comprehensive immigration reform:
Sen. Marco Rubio has zero credibility on securing our border. Nothing has been more “divisive” than the outright lies Sen. Marco Rubio used to try and sell his amnesty for illegal immigrants to the American people. Hard working Americans cannot depend on Senator Rubio to protect their jobs. Senator Rubio’s “Gang of Eight” bill, which was such an epic failure it never even came up for a vote in the House, would have given President Obama the immediate power to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
Makes one wonder who this Unnamed Adviser is and why he is refusing to put his name to such remarks.
The problem is, Mr. Trump does not give a cost for building this wall which he says will stop the flow of "illegal" immigration. Furthermore, how is he going to pay for the border guards, judges, prisons, and prison guards that this police state entails? And how will he ensure that our police don't profile Latinos like they already do Blacks and hippies? If he really wants to make America great again, then maybe he should recognize the positive contributions that immigrants make to our economy, including that computer he uses to post his Twitter rants. And if he really wants to make America great again, then let him come up with a plan to put everybody to work.
But the spat between Mr. Trump and Mr. Rubio shows a split between the GOP base, which lives in exurbs and rural areas, and the donors, who usually live in cities. Rick Santorum candidly explained, taking a swipe at what he called country club Republicans:
Last year on Breitbart News Sunday, Santorum mentioned that one of the GOP’s biggest problems is that, unlike Democrats, the party’s donors and grassroots are not “perfectly aligned.” Santorum said elite Republican donors who mostly live in liberal cities that Santorum called “little dark-blue areas” want conservatives to “tone down” their rhetoric and embrace more moderate policies because they do not “want to get beat up in liberal newspapers and country clubs.”
The article notes that top donors are already calling in favors and trying to get Mr. Trump excluded from the GOP debates.